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adjective

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as in dissolved

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as in condensed

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verb

past tense of evaporate
as in disappeared
to cease to be visible by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated

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Recent Examples of evaporated
Adjective
And then there’s sea salt, made from evaporated seawater and has trace amounts of minerals. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Six cans of evaporated milk were rusted enough to draw Stop Sales. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Bavishi suggested popping a can of coconut milk in the fridge, letting the cream solidify on top, and skimming that off to use as a low-moisture replacement for the evaporated coconut milk. — Beth Kracklauer, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
Their defense had surrendered 83 points in consecutive blowout losses to Missouri and South Carolina, and the optimism surrounding new coach Jon Sumrall had evaporated faster than a puddle on a Gainesville sidewalk in August. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026 But this attitude seemed to have evaporated by the end of July. — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Farming jobs evaporated as technologies, from fertilizers to combines, enabled greater productivity, automation, and consolidation. — Ali Kashani, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, smashing beef with a wooden spoon, until wine is evaporated, surface of pot is almost dry, and meat is finely ground, 12–15 minutes. — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 What To Avoid Avoid application during the hottest part of the day, and make sure any morning dew has evaporated. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2026 In an instant, what was left of Yulianna’s peacetime childhood evaporated. — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026 The smallest of these would have evaporated quickly, disappearing from the cosmos long ago. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026 Anyone who regularly follows dark matter news knows that past tantalizing anomalies evaporated as more data came in. — ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporated
  1. dissolved
  2. condensed
  3. disappeared
  4. melted
  5. concentrated
  6. vanished
  7. vaporized
  8. faded
Adjective
  • Absorption methods have shown the ability to remove dissolved dyes without transforming them into potentially harmful off-products.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The company is developing a specialized fiber that captures dissolved uranium as seawater flows across its surface.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of dissolved
Adjective
  • The play is essentially a condensed version of Jaku’s memoir, but there’s one big difference.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The blitz with Jones was an example of Joseph taking advantage of a defensive back’s versatility and athleticism to set the edge in the more condensed real estate of the red zone.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of condensed
Verb
  • Lin was subsequently disappeared from the film, all sources concurred, and Belgrad stepped in as the primary Netflix exec overseeing the project (until, of course, he was laid off last week).
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared in their Lockheed Electra 10-E while on a journey around the world.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of disappeared
Adjective
  • Bacalao with melted leeks comes from the Spanish side of Lane’s brain, finished with a South American seaweed salt for umami and grip.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of melted
Adjective
  • Political power, economic opportunity, cultural prestige, and elite education remain extraordinarily concentrated in the capital.
    — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • That’s because heavy mineral sands, which may contain roughly 2 percent or 3 percent monazite by weight, are not subject to the same import controls as concentrated monazite ore.
    — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of concentrated
Verb
  • Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished 22,000 miles into their expedition.
    — Lana Zak, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There, researchers have just announced that AI may help hasten the return of the extinct dodo, with the flightless bird, which vanished from the world more than 350 years ago, likely walking among us again sometime in the early 2030s.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of vanished
Adjective
  • The eruption column soared more than 55 km, pushing vaporized seawater up into the stratosphere, and the pressure wave from the explosion was detected across the globe.
    — Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of vaporized
Verb
  • The ritual has faded and has been downgraded to a monthly reception.
    — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • This seemed at the time like the biggest misstep of Stearns’ tenure, as the Brewers faded afterward and missed the playoffs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of faded

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“Evaporated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporated. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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